Controversial Quotes · Page 2

I've been asked a lot about the state of dubstep in America, and everyone wants me to say something controversial, but I…

— James Blake

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

— Anonymous

Susan Boyle having a meltdown is not controversial. It's human for a 48-year-old recluse to get a little wigged out when she…

— Shawn Amos

For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about…

— Judith Butler

We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open…

— Jens Stoltenberg

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble…

— Rob Bell

I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty…

— Camilla Lackberg

Many cartoons I've drawn have been controversial, perhaps a little before their time, certainly when I was getting started.

— Terry Mosher

“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to…

— Dave Hickey

That's our job as artists is to be honest about what we're feeling. And what we're feeling is not always going to…

— Pharrell Williams

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

— Madonna Ciccone

I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.

— Robert Redford

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

— John Heilemann

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

— Avigdor Lieberman

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in…

— John Shelby Spong

I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has…

— Sherman Alexie

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love…

— Criss Jami

Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.

— Eugenie Scott

The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese…

— Jimmy Wales

The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a…

— Laura Bates

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a…

— John Poindexter

I played a girl. There's really nothing controversial about her. She's just fine. She has to be fine in order to make…

— Claire Danes

I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me

— Oscar Levant

A mutual friend, Benjamin Rush, brought [Tomas Jefferson and John Adams] together in 1812, and they went on to exchange letters for…

— Gordon S. Wood

I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas…

— Marilyn Manson